Cyko;<br><br>Well, you asked for advice, and you got lots of advice from people that know far more about this stuff than I do. Whether or not you choose to take that advice is up to you. <br><br>I don't want to start a flame war, and I may be way out of line, but I find your attitude hard to understand. On the one hand, you have a "PSK" which is much larger and bulkier than most. On the other hand, you leave out items that most of us consider essential life-saving pieces of gear, on the grounds that you either don't have room for them, or are hoping to get lucky and find something that you will be able to use as a substitute. And to compound the problem, you seem to have very little interest in learning or practising the skills necessary to make use of these "found" materials.<br><br>Anyway, fwiw, here's my 2 cents:<br><br>>Q: Why two containers?<br>>A: Because all of the contents do not fit into the small Altoids can and the Pelican case is waterproof. <br><br>It would make more sense to me to just take the Altoids tin out of the Pelican case and carry it as a pocket kit. As the Pelican case is a vehicle or backpack kit, sticking the Altoids tin inside it just defeats the purpose of having the Altoids tin in the first place, which is its small size.<br><br>> The smaller contents are more organized in the Altoids can <br><br>Irrelevant, IMO, as I don't think you should be unpacking your PSK on a regular basis in the field. It's for emergencies.<br><br>>Q: Why only five waterproof matches?<br>>A: You should only have to start one fire, and KEEP it lit. <br><br>In an ideal world, you wouldn't need to start a fire at all. We don't live in an ideal world, which is why this forum exists. <br><br>>you always have natural ways to create a fire, not to say these are the easiest, but they are possible. <br>>Hopefully you don't get stranded in wetlands.<br><br>So if you get stranded in wetlands, you just give up and freeze because you didn't think to bring along a disposable lighter or a mag-flint block?<br><br>> A: A large rubberband can be used as a small tourniquet for a digit or hand. <br><br>Cyko, please - I beg you. Take a first aid course. There is no reason, ever, to use a tourniquet on a finger or hand. If you do need to make a tourniquet, a rubberband is not a good choice. (In response to another post of yours, ALL tourniquets are temporary. My rule of thumb is, if I were to use a tourniquet, I would assume that everything below the tourniquet will have to be amputated.) <br><br>Stick the Altoids tin in your pocket instead of your backpack and use the rubberbands to keep it closed.<br><br>>Q:Why don't you have any rope or cord?<br>>A: Nature can easily provide me with that. <br><br>Nature can provide you with pretty much anything, if you know what you're doing. The whole point to carrying a PSK (IMHO) is to give you time to make all these neat things that Nature provides, without freezing to death in the meantime.<br><br>>A: I love pepper on my food, as I am sure other men do too. <br><br>Fine. Carry a salt and pepper shaker. But it doesn't need to go in your PSK.<br><br>>Q:Why no whistle?<br>>A: I can use a blade of grass or a leaf as a whistle. <br><br>Same comment as others have made. What if you've got a broken arm and can't use your blade of grass? What if there is no grass, or none suitable? How much energy are you expending to make your two-fingered wolf whistle, compared to what it would take to carry around a Fox 40?<br><br>>A:If communication was needed, morse code is good to know. I do not plan to memorize morse code, so I included a chart. <br><br>If you haven't memorised the morse code, I can almost guarantee you won't be able to use it in an emergency. <br><br>>Q:Why the small band-aids?<br>>A: That tin can is packed! I have no room for gauze, gauze is a luxury!! <br><br>No, my friend. Pepper is a luxury. Gauze is no more a luxury than blood is, if you sustain a serious injury.<br><br>>> LOL, I wish I could fit a MASH unit in that can, but I can't.<br><br>Neither can I. But I can, and do, carry a basic first aid kit, with a couple of triangular bandages, roller gauze, and sterile dressings.<br><br>It never ceases to amaze me that some people will go to enormous lengths to learn "survival" skills, and put together the ultimate emergency survival kit, and then find excuses not to take a first aid course, or carry a basic first aid kit. <br><br>MHO only.